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Rapper Hits a Dead End With the IRS
IRS TELLS TAX-DODGING RAPPER: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! TOPH’S TAX NIGHTMARES
After playing cat-and-mouse for years with the rapper known as Tyga, the IRS has a go-ahead from a tax court to seize his assets to recover $2.3 million in back taxes. Tyga, whose real name is Micheal R. Stevenson, is on the hook for more than $8 million in unpaid taxes since 2012, according to Tax Notes, a news site. His history has been marked by a chronic failure to pay estimated taxes or comply with settlement deadlines. An appeals officer recently rejected Tyga’s attempt to slash his monthly installment payments on $2.3 million owed for 2019. The rapper’s lawyer cited declining tour revenues and costly litigation in other areas of his life. Instead, a tax court judge gave the officer a green light to begin collection action.
Tyga’s tour revenues have fallen since the peak of his career. The rapper shared a Grammy in 2011 with two other artists, and he was named Favorite Rap and Hip-Hop Artist in 2012 at the American Music Awards. He bought a $6.5 million California mansion around that time. Tyga’s dating life also drew the spotlight. He and the model Blac Chyna began dating after she starred in one of his music videos, and the two had a son together in 2012. In 2014, Tyga began a relationship with the reality-TV star Kylie Jenner. Jenner appeared in two of Tyga’s music videos before the couple broke up in 2017.
Tyga has been sued twice since 2018 by landlords trying to collect unpaid rent or damages.
The IRS was unmoved by the rapper’s pleas of poverty. “Against this long backdrop of oft-fruitless accommodation,” a tax court judge wrote, “the appeals officer was justified in deciding ‘enough was enough.’”
Based on documents filed by his attorney, the appeals officer claimed Tyga could afford to pay about six times more each month than he was offering — $87,169 a month compared with the $13,000 he offered. Although the appeals officer had given Tyga more time to catch up on estimated taxes, he repeatedly missed those deadlines too.
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